Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Mindanao, Philippines – GFZ
(Reuters) - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Mindanao in the Philippines in the early hours of Monday morning, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 38 km...
Dec 03, 2023
‘There is no Planet B’, Belgian climate protest tells COP28
By Farah Salhi BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Police said about 20,000 people protested in the Belgian capital on Sunday to demand more action to fight global warming as delegates from some 200 countries met in...
Dec 03, 2023
Pro-DeSantis super PAC hit with more departures, as turmoil among allies intensifies
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A pair of key figures at the main super PAC supporting Ron DeSantis' presidential bid have left the organization, two sources familiar with the matter told Reut...
Dec 03, 2023
COP28 a rare chance in UAE for protests on Palestinians, climate action
By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) - More than 100 activists in the Dubai Expo City where this year's COP28 U.N. climate summit is being held took part in a protest on Sunday to call for a ceasefir...
Dec 03, 2023
Al Gore slams COP28 climate summit host UAE, says its emissions soared
By Valerie Volcovici DUBAI (Reuters) - Climate advocate and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Sunday slammed the UAE - host of the COP28 climate summit - saying its position as overseer of interna...
Dec 03, 2023
Man stabs four to death in New York’s Queens, police shoot him dead
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - A man wielding a steak knife killed four members of his extended family, including two children, at a home in the Queens borough of New York City early on Sunday before b...
Dec 03, 2023
Palestinian-American student shot in Vermont is paralyzed
(Reuters) - One of the three college students of Palestinian descent who were shot in Vermont last month is paralyzed from the chest down after a bullet lodged in his spine, the student's family said....
Dec 03, 2023
Explainer-How will the Supreme Court reshape US opioid epidemic relief?
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Monday to hear arguments over the legality of a roughly $6 billion bankruptcy settlement involving Purdue Pharma, maker of the po...
Dec 03, 2023
Scientists launch research effort at COP28 for Congo rainforest
By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Hundreds of scientists at the United Nations COP28 climate summit on Sunday launched a research coalition aimed at correcting a historic lack of information about ...
Dec 03, 2023
Indonesia’s Marapi volcano erupts, spewing ash
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's Marapi volcano in West Sumatra province erupted on Sunday, spewing volcanic ash as high as 3,000 metres (9,843 ft) into the air, according to country's disaster managem...
Dec 03, 2023
